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Recovering Self-Evident Truths : Catholic Perspectives on American Law.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D. C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (425 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813220895
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Recovering Self-Evident TruthsDDC classification:
  • 349.73
LOC classification:
  • KF358
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword - Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Michael A. Scaperlanda and Teresa Stanton Collett -- 1. The Foundations of Catholic Legal Theory: A Primer - Kevin P. Lee -- Part I. The Nature of the Human Person -- 2. A Theological Anthropology of the Human Person - Lorenzo Albacete -- 3. A Philosophical Anthropology of the Human Person: Can We Know the Nature of Human Persons? - Benedict M. Ashley, O.P. -- Part II. The Person in Community -- 4. Truth as the Ground of Freedom: A Theme from John Paul II - Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. -- 5. Solidarity, Subsidiarity, and the Consumerist Impetus of American Law - Robert K. Vischer -- 6. The Constitution and the Common Good: A Perspective on the Catholic Contribution - Robert John Araujo, S.J. -- Part III. Catholicism in Dialogue with Political and Legal Theory -- 7. Why We Should (and Should Not) Be Liberals - Christopher Wolfe -- 8. Reason, Freedom, and the Rule of Law: Reflections on Their Significance in Catholic Thought - Robert P. George -- Part IV. Catholic Perspectives on Substantive Areas of Law -- 9. Labor Law: "Making Life More Human"-Work and the Social Question - Thomas C. Kohler -- 10. Contract Law: A Catholic Approach? - James Gordley -- 11. Property Law: Catholic Social Thought and the New Urbanism-A Shared Vision to Confront the Problem of Urban Sprawl? - Vincent D. Rougeau -- 12. Tort Law: Toward a Trinitarian Theory of Products Liability - Amelia J. Uelmen -- 13. Criminal Law: "Everlasting Splendours"-Death-Row Volunteers, Lawyers' Ethics, and Human Dignity - Richard W. Garnett -- 14. Family Law: Natural Law, Marriage, and the Thought of Karol Wojtyla - John J. Coughlin, O.F.M. -- 15. Immigration Law: A Catholic Christian Perspective on Immigration Justice - Michael A. Scaperlanda.
16. International Law: Foundations of Human Rights-The Unfinished Business - Mary Ann Glendon -- Afterword: Catholics and the Two Cultures - Russell Shaw -- Epilogue - Randy Lee -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword - Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Michael A. Scaperlanda and Teresa Stanton Collett -- 1. The Foundations of Catholic Legal Theory: A Primer - Kevin P. Lee -- Part I. The Nature of the Human Person -- 2. A Theological Anthropology of the Human Person - Lorenzo Albacete -- 3. A Philosophical Anthropology of the Human Person: Can We Know the Nature of Human Persons? - Benedict M. Ashley, O.P. -- Part II. The Person in Community -- 4. Truth as the Ground of Freedom: A Theme from John Paul II - Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. -- 5. Solidarity, Subsidiarity, and the Consumerist Impetus of American Law - Robert K. Vischer -- 6. The Constitution and the Common Good: A Perspective on the Catholic Contribution - Robert John Araujo, S.J. -- Part III. Catholicism in Dialogue with Political and Legal Theory -- 7. Why We Should (and Should Not) Be Liberals - Christopher Wolfe -- 8. Reason, Freedom, and the Rule of Law: Reflections on Their Significance in Catholic Thought - Robert P. George -- Part IV. Catholic Perspectives on Substantive Areas of Law -- 9. Labor Law: "Making Life More Human"-Work and the Social Question - Thomas C. Kohler -- 10. Contract Law: A Catholic Approach? - James Gordley -- 11. Property Law: Catholic Social Thought and the New Urbanism-A Shared Vision to Confront the Problem of Urban Sprawl? - Vincent D. Rougeau -- 12. Tort Law: Toward a Trinitarian Theory of Products Liability - Amelia J. Uelmen -- 13. Criminal Law: "Everlasting Splendours"-Death-Row Volunteers, Lawyers' Ethics, and Human Dignity - Richard W. Garnett -- 14. Family Law: Natural Law, Marriage, and the Thought of Karol Wojtyla - John J. Coughlin, O.F.M. -- 15. Immigration Law: A Catholic Christian Perspective on Immigration Justice - Michael A. Scaperlanda.

16. International Law: Foundations of Human Rights-The Unfinished Business - Mary Ann Glendon -- Afterword: Catholics and the Two Cultures - Russell Shaw -- Epilogue - Randy Lee -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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